Disinfecting agent



Patented Aug. 30, 1927,

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

BUDOLF LIESKE, OF LEVEBKUSEN,-NEAR COLOGNE, WERNER SCHULEMANN, OF VOH- WINKEL, NEAR ELBERFELD, COLOGNE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOBS,

AND WILHELM BONRATH, OF LEVERKUSEN, NEAR BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO WINTHROP CHEMI- CAL COMPANY, 01 YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISINFEGTING AGENT. I

30 Drawing. Application filed January As it is known plants, seed or' soil can be disinfected by treating them with solutions of mercury salts or other mercury compounds.

-We have now found tliat a better result is obtainable in a simpler and cheaper way by treating plants, seed, soil or the like with solutions of organic mercury compounds in mixture with-alkali metal phenolates or with; caustic .alkali and phenols. The organic a-mercury. compounds react with 7 general formula:

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having superior disin- The reaction probably with the following forming compounds fectmg properties. takes place in accordance in which R and It, stand for aromatic residues and Me stands for an alkali metal. In the case of mercurized nitrophenol and sodium phenolate the reaction probably is as the phenolates in the presence of water, follows:

on on o +uson m O In this way it is possible to employ also insoluble mercury compounds. s examples we name the following products: mercurized phenol, mercurichlorophenolsulfate,

' merouriphenolacetate, merc'uricresolcyamde,

mercuriz'ed para-nitrophenol, mercuribenzoic acid, mercurichlorobenzoic acld, mercurized orthonitro henolacetate, mercurlzed paranitrophenolan ydride, the sodium salt of mercurized nitrophenol, mercurized naphthol, mercurized bromonaphthol, mercurized nitrochloronaphthol, mercurized cresol, mercurized nitrocresol, mercurized nitrochlorocresol, etc. Other ingredients can be added e, g. ferricyanide of potassium, sodium chloride etc.

The new products have proved to be valuable disinfecting agents e. g. for seed, plants and soil. They destroy seed-borne fungi and bacteria capable of causing diseases of plants and the micro-organisms present in the soil which are capable of causing plant p diseases.

For preparing these mixtures the ingredients are thoroughly mixed together e. g. 10 parts of mercurized nitrophenol with 10 parts of sodium phenolate and 80 parts of sodium chloride.

The sodium chloride is chemically inert in the composition and serves mere y as a diluent. Inert materials, such as the sodium cent aqueous solution of this mixture is used. c

We claim: I

1. The herein described new disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal preparations formed by mixing an organic mercury compound with an alkali metal phenolate, said mercury compound and alkali-metal phenolate bein capable of interacting in the presence 0% water to form a compound having superior disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal pr0perties, substantially as described.

2. The herein described new disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal preparations formed by mixing an organic mercury compound with an alkali metal henolate said mercury compound and alcapable of interacting in the presence 0 water to form a compound having superior disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal properties, and an inert material, substantially as described.

3. The herein described new disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal preparations formed by mixing an organic kali-metal phenolate bein I alkali,-

-mercury compound with a phenol and an alkali said organic mercury compound, phen01, and alkali being capable of interactingin the presence of water to form acompound having superior disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticidal and fungicidal properties, and an inert materialsubstantially as described.

.5. Processior disinfecting plants-seed and soil which-"consists in applying thereto a'prep'a-ra'tion formed by mixing an organic mercury compound, an alkali and a phenol,

I a preparation formed by said organic mercury compound, alkali, and

phenol being capable of interacting in the presenceiof water to term a compound havmg superior disinfecting, bactericidal, Insecticidal and fungicidal properties.

6. Process for disinfecting plant's, Seed and soil whicliconsists inu l ing' thereto mixing an organic mercury compound and an alkali metal phenola-te, said mercury compound and alkali-metal phenolate being capable of interacting in the presence of water to form a compound .having superior disinfecting, bactericidal, insecticldal and fungicidal properties.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands. i

RUDOLF LIESKE; WERNER SCHULEMANN. WILHELM BONRATH. 

